Quotes About Compassion

Perhaps once one realised how deeply one could bond with a creature as foreign as a dragon, all forms of human love seemed more acceptable.

It is the nature of humans that we tend to pass our pain along. As if we could get rid of it by inflicting an equal hurt on someone else.

Cruelty is a skill taught not only by example, but also by experience of it.

Every small, unselfish action nudges the world into a better path.

Not babies perhaps. But I know about young things. Foals, puppies, calves, piglets. Even hunting cats. I know if you want them to trust you, you touch them when they are small. Gently, but firmly, so they believe in your strength, too. You don't shout at them, or make sudden moves that look threatening. You give them good feed and clean water, and keep them clean and give them shelter from the weather. You don't take out your temper on them, or confuse punishment with discipline.

We didn't have to share a mind to share a heart.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you.

Seldom can one hate a person if one understand that person.

Be content with you own life, my friend, and live it well. Let others decide for themselves what path they will follow.' She frowned up at him. 'Even when you see, with absolute clarity, that is wrong for them? That they hurt themselves?' 'Perhaps people have a right to their pain,' he hazarded. Reluctantly he added, 'Perhaps they even need it.

Men cannot grieve as dogs do.

Does anything feel worse than being angry with people you love?" "P. 307: Fitz to Chade

Men deny animals have feelings and thoughts for one basic reason: so they won't feel guilty about what they do to them.

Sometimes," he observed obliquely, "you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect."" "p. 267: Chade to Fitz

Sometimes you have to trust people to understand you are not perfect

How could the whole world not be as broken as I was?

Patience had once counseled me that the best way to stop pitying myself was to do something for someone else.

Not every problem in the world belongs to you alone, Badgerlock. Let others have their share.

When considering a man's motives, remember you must not measure his wheat with your bushel. He may not be using the same standard at all.

A girl did not need to hit to hurt someone.

When you save any part of the world, you've saved the whole world. In fact, that's the only way it can be done.

It's all my fault,' I confessed to her. 'Oh, Fitz, always you are …' She bit back whatever it was she had started to say. More gently she added, 'No one blames you.' 'I blame me.' 'Of course you do,' she said, as if I were a child insisting the moon was a cheese.

His father and his sister had both deliberately attempted to wound him, and he had let them succeed. But those things that had happened, and these feelings he now experienced, were not faults to be conquered. He could not deny the feelings, nor should he try to change them. "Accept and grow," he (WIntrow) reminded himself, and felt the pain ease." p. 107

There is, in all honesty, no way to kill someone mercifully. There are those who count it no crime to drown an imperfect newborn in warm water, as if the infant will not struggle desperately to draw air into its lungs. Did it not try to breathe, it would not drown. But they do not hear the screams nor feel the darkening of the mind that the child endures, so they have been merciful. To themselves. This is true of most "mercy killings.

Could it be that simple? Simply pretend we had never quarreled; just go back to treating each other as we had before?